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![December 5, 2025
Dear President Mohler and VP Hood,
As members of the University of Alabama faculty, we are deeply concerned by the recent
decision to suspend the student magazines [Alice] and Nineteen Fifty-Six. We urge the
administration to reinstate these publications immediately and to defend all students against any
threats to their freedom of expression going forward.
We dispute the administration’s legal rationale for closing these publications and stand in
solidarity with the students who produce and read them. We also have concerns and questions
regarding how this decision was made and conveyed. Why was this change made and by whom?
Why weren’t students and faculty consulted? Why was the magazine suspension announced
during the final week of the semester, when the affected students are busy preparing for exams?
[Alice] and Nineteen Fifty-Six provide exceptional professional development training and
experience for students. Alumni of these publications have gone on to great success in many
fields, among them journalism, creative media, advertising, and public relations. They are bereft
of publications that gave them community and fond memories of the Capstone. Current students
are seeing these rich experiences and opportunities ripped away from them in real time.
Your decision to suspend these publications not only violates these students’ First Amendment
rights, it tarnishes the reputation of the University of Alabama as a space that welcomes all
students. It materially harms current students while souring the memories of the alumni who
comprise the university’s donor base. Reinstating these publications is not only the right thing to
do, failing to do so raises unsettling questions about the judgment and efficacy of the university’s
administration.
The University of Alabama chapter of the AAUP supports academic freedom, freedom of
expression, and the principle of shared governance. We’re troubled by both this decision and the
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